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The Legion organises ' The Festival of Remembrance ' on the Saturday before ' Remembrance Sunday ' which is historically derived from the 1918 Western European First World War ' Armistice Day ' ( 11 November ) with the Royal Albert Hall, London, having been involved together with the Monarchy as from the 1920s, it being now called ' The Festival of Remembrance ' but possibly not originally having been intended to hold this sort of general character ( from its origin it possessed a status approaching that of a state event such as Trooping the Colour but originally with particular reference to a particular period of history, the First World War, at a European level ).
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The Legion organises a fund-raising drive each year in the weeks before Remembrance Sunday, during which artificial red poppies, meant to be worn on clothing, are offered to the public in return for a charitable donation.
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In 1965 he received a joint Erasmus Prize with film director Ingmar Bergman and in 1971 he was made a Commander of the national order of the Legion of Honor by the French Minister of Culture Jacques Duhamel at the Cannes Film Festival.
In 1944 the Campbell American Legion, local peach farmers, and business owners of the area played host to the first ever Peach Festival.
The Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance, is held annually the day before Remembrance Sunday.
In recognition of this, he was invited to perform twice at the Royal British Legion Remembrance Day Festival at the Royal Albert Hall, in the presence of The Queen.
In November 2006 she performed before the Queen at the Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall and joined fellow Welsh singer James Fox in the final verse of " Anthem " from the musical Chess.
In November 2007 she sang again at the Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall and was named classical performer of the year at the Variety Club Showbiz Awards.
Legion and Remembrance
In the United Kingdom, Remembrance Sunday is marked by ceremonies at local war memorials in most cities, towns and villages, attended by civic dignitaries, ex-servicemen and-women ( principally members of the Royal British Legion ), members of local armed forces regular and reserve units ( Royal Navy and Royal Naval Reserve, Royal Marines and Royal Marines Reserve, Army and Territorial Army, Royal Air Force and Royal Auxiliary Air Force ), military cadet forces ( Sea Cadet Corps, Army Cadet Force and Air Training Corps as well as the Combined Cadet Force ) and youth organisations ( e. g. Scouts and Guides ).
Ireland's Remembrance Day ceremonies, hosted by the Royal British Legion and attended by the President of Ireland, take place there every November.
Every Remembrance Sunday, there is a parade around the village war memorial, hosted by the Royal British Legion and attended by service men and women past and present, 1st Flackwell Heath Scout Group, Flackwell Heath Guide District, Flackwell Heath Girl's Brigade and more recently a local Troop of the Boy Scouts of America.
The Legion is responsible for Canada's remembrance poppy campaign which distributes plastic lapel poppies to be worn in the lead up to Remembrance Day.
It is an anthem of the Royal British Legion and is usually sung every year at the Service of Remembrance in November at the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Perhaps best known for the yearly Poppy Appeal and Remembrance services, the Legion is a campaigning organisation that promotes the welfare and interests of current and former members of the British Armed Forces.
* Remembrance blog for The Royal British Legion
On Remembrance Sunday the local branch of the British Legion continues to place a wreath of poppies on the Memerial.
A Silver Cross Mother is chosen each year by the Royal Canadian Legion to lay a wreath during the Remembrance Day ceremony at the National War Memorial in Ottawa on behalf of all mothers who have lost children in the service of their country.
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-- I, too, congratulate the American Legion, of which I am proud to have been a member for more than 40 years, on the recent state convention.
It was my desire to advise the membership of the Legion that the majority of polling places are on private property and, without an amendment to the law, we could not enforce this.
During the war, the Condor Legion undertook the bombing of Guernica which had a tremendous psychological effect on the populations of Europe.
Annual celebrations also take place in Hong Kong, entitled Canada D ' eh and held on June 30 at Lan Kwai Fong, where an estimated attendance of 12, 000 was reported in 2008 ; in Afghanistan, where members of the Canadian Forces mark the holiday at their base ; and in Mexico, at the American Legion in Chapala, and the Canadian Club in Ajijic.
France maintains a small maritime base and a Foreign Legion Detachment ( DLEM ) on Mayotte.
* French Legion of Honor ( Chevalier of the Légion d ' honneur ) on 24 February 1986 for his UNICEF work.
For his wartime work on radio the French government gave him the Legion of Honor in 1919.
The Foreign Legion is today known as an elite military unit whose training focuses not only on traditional military skills but also on its strong esprit de corps.
The French Foreign Legion was created by Louis Philippe, the King of the French, on 10 March 1831.
The Foreign Legion landed at Tarragona on 17 August with around 4, 000 men who were quickly dubbed Los Argelinos ( the Algerians ) by locals because of their previous posting.
The Foreign Legion was dissolved on 8 December 1838, when it had dropped to only 500 men.
It was in Mexico on 30 April 1863 that the Foreign Legion earned its legendary status.
The captain had a wooden hand which was stolen during the battle ; it was later returned to the Foreign Legion and is now kept in a case in the Foreign Legion Museum at Aubagne, and paraded annually on Camerone Day.
In December 1883, during a review of the Second Legion Battalion on the eve of its departure for Tonkin to take part in the B? c Ninh Campaign, General François de Négrier pronounced a famous mot: Vous, légionnaires, vous êtes soldats pour mourir, et je vous envoie où l ’ on meurt!
Monument commemorating the soldiers of the Foreign Legion killed on duty during the South-Oranese campaign ( 1897 – 1902 ).
In World War I, the Foreign Legion fought in many critical battles on the Western Front, including Artois, Champagne, Somme, Aisne, and Verdun ( in 1917 ), and also suffered heavy casualties during 1918.
Nevertheless, the old and the new men of the Foreign Legion fought and died in vicious battles on the Western front, including Belloy-en-Santerre during the Battle of the Somme, where Seeger, after being mortally wounded by machine-gun fire, cheered on the rest of his advancing battalion.
Citizens of the Central Powers serving with the Foreign Legion on the outbreak of war were normally posted to garrisons in North Africa to avoid problems of divided loyalties.
Constantly on call throughout the country, heavily engaged in fighting against the National Liberation Front and the Armée de Libération Nationale ( ALN ), the Foreign Legion was brought to the brink of extinction after some officers, men and the highly-decorated 1st Foreign Parachute Regiment took part in the Generals ' putsch.
The war ended after a hundred hours of fighting on the ground, which resulted in very light casualties for the Foreign Legion.
* Legion of Mary, Eight Ecumenical Council ( on the Council of 869 )
Legion and Saturday
) During the fifties, teenagers from all over Southern California flocked to El Monte Legion Stadium every Friday and Saturday night to see their favorite performers.
The Legion Recreation Center in Halstad, or LRC was the site of live music every Saturday night.
Named after a Saturday morning cartoon, the LOD had the reputation of attracting " the best of the best " — until one of the most talented members called Phiber Optik feuded with Legion of Doomer Erik Bloodaxe and got ' tossed out of the clubhouse '.
The biggest game of the 1983 season for the Stallions came in Week # 11 on a Saturday night ( May 14, 1983 ) when they defeated the visiting Los Angeles Express, 35 – 20, in front of the largest crowd of the year at Legion Field ( 42, 212 ).
Every July on the Saturday nearest the anniversary of his crash ( second Saturday in July ) at 1: 00 p. m. he is honored at the monument site by members of the American Legion Mount Holly Post 11 accompanied by an entourage from the Mexican consulates in New York City and Philadelphia.
Sonny would go from Bayside to Rosedale many a Saturday night, go to the Legion and then home.
Bouncing Boy is part of the core team in the Legion of Super-Heroes animated series, appearing Saturday mornings on The CW ; he is voiced by Michael Cornacchia.
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